Deepening our partnership with the UK AI Security Institute

December 11, 2025 Responsibility & Safety

William Isaac and Owen Larter

Today, we're announcing an expanded partnership with the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) through a new Memorandum of Understanding focused on foundational security and safety research, to help ensure artificial intelligence is developed safely and benefits everyone.

The research partnership with AISI is an important part of our broader collaboration with the UK government on accelerating safe and beneficial AI progress.

Building on a foundation of collaboration

AI holds immense potential to benefit humanity by helping treat disease, accelerate scientific discovery, create economic prosperity and tackle climate change. For these benefits to be realised, we must put safety and responsibility at the heart of development. Evaluating our models against a broad spectrum of potential risks remains a critical part of our safety strategy, and external partnerships are an important element of this work.

This is why we have partnered with the UK AISI since its inception in November 2023 to test our most capable models. We are deeply committed to the UK AISI’s goal to equip governments, industry and wider society with a scientific understanding of the potential risks posed by advanced AI as well as potential solutions and mitigations.

We are actively working with AISI to build more robust evaluations for AI models, and our teams have collaborated on safety research to move the field forward, including recent work on Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety. Building on this success, today we are broadening our partnership from testing to include wider, more foundational, research in a variety of areas.

What the partnership involves

Under this new research partnership, we're broadening our collaboration to include: